Patients

Risk Factors for Colorectal Cancer

A risk factor is anything that increases your chance for getting cancer. Your personal risk factors like family history, lifestyle and ethnicity will determine when you should start screening, and what type of screening test is right for you.

What are Personal Risk Factors?

You or a close member of your family (parent, sibling, child) have had colorectal cancer. Your risk is higher when two or more family members have had colorectal cancer. It is also higher if one or more of your family members has colorectal cancer and is less than age 50.

You have a history of benign polyps in the colon or rectum or related cancers, or have other bowel disease like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), chronic ulcerative colitis (CUC), or Crohn’s disease.

You have a history of benign polyps in the colon or rectum or related cancers, or have other bowel disease like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), chronic ulcerative colitis (CUC), or Crohn’s disease.

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